Just as a PSA, I’ve never reblogged that “your mom will die” post. I’ve seen it half a dozen time so or more and I’ve ignored it every time. My mom’s doing great.
You’re safe. I’ve done the test for you. You can safely ignore it. It is a failed curse. It doesn’t work.
Lmao they really took that chance tho
No, I didn’t. In my mind it wasn’t a chance.
But for some people, it would feel like one. There are people for whom posts like that cause great distress. Not because they think those posts actually work, but because those posts prey on anxiety disorders by exploiting the way anxious brains function. It’s an inherently cruel thing to do and I do not blame anyone who is unwilling to take the ‘chance,’ because regardless of whether or not they genuinely believe their mom will be affected, the emotional distress caused by having seen and not reblogged the post is not worth it.
I do not suffer from this particular brand of anxiety. But I do have anxiety about other, equally unlikely things. So I can empathize with people for whom these types of chain posts cause genuine distress, and I can recognize how needlessly cruel the posts themselves are–particularly because people who DO reblog them often do so at the expense of followers, or at the risk of getting rude comments about how ‘gullible’ they are, or even angry remarks from other anxiety sufferers who start blaming the victim instead of blaming the person who created the damn post in the first place.
My point in creating this post was simply to attempt to ease the anxiety of those who are negatively impacted by those types of chain posts. It has nothing to do with whether or not I actually believe that ignoring that post puts my mom in danger. I don’t. If I’d had even a modicum of doubt about that, I wouldn’t have taken the chance.
But hopefully a few fellow anxiety sufferers now have ammunition against the part of their brains that torments them with that whispered “but what if…?” every time they see the post (or others like it).
That’s all.
hey op you’re a good person
I have also never reblogged those posts and my mom is also fine. She recently called me about labeling emails in her gmail inbox and to tell me about antioxidants.
That’s the most mom thing I’ve ever heard and I love it <3
yep needed this like I know this but sometimes the anxiety’s still there. And it’s a fight to scroll down.
And guess what? Nothing happens. You’ll all be fight.
Damn, well now I know why I get stupid nervous about ‘em and freak out and shit
